Talk:Gerridae/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 06:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I propose to take on the review of this article which has been awaiting review for nearly three months. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

First reading

• There are several paragraphs that have no references at the end or, in some cases, no references at all.
• The lead is quite long but does not fully summarize the rest of the article. It includes some information that is not included in the body of the article.
• Where measurements are given, they should be in imperial measure as well as metric.
• The article is in need of a thorough copyedit, especially the first half. The phraseology used is often somewhat muddled. Most of the following points refer to sentences in need of improvement but there are many other places where the prose is of poor quality: Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:54, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

• "Rather than using it for flight, it acts as a membranous covering and the thickened part is by where claws develop."
• "Consistent with the classification of Gerridae as true bugs, gerrids have a mouthpart evolved for piercing and sucking, gerrids distinguish themselves by having the unique ability to walk on water."
• "The front legs are attached just posterior to the eyes while the middle legs are attached closer to the back legs which attach mid-thorax but extend beyond the terminal end of the body."
• "However, wingless forms are favored due to competition for ovarian development and wings and reproductive success is the main goal due to the selfish gene theory."
• "Temperatures signify the seasons and thus when wings are needed since they hibernate during winter."
• "... though this development rate has been found highly correlated to the water temperature the eggs are in."
• "It has been studied by prevalence of water striders in varying environments, that water striders most prefer waters around 25 degrees Celsius."
• "Fish do not appear to be the main predators of water striders, but will in cases of starvation."
• "Males that are allowed to mate stay attached to the same female for the entire reproductive season." - Physically attached?
• "This is likely due to the fact that development rates of young are temperature dependent [5]." - To what does this number 5 refer?
• " Prominent genera Gerridae are present in Wales, the former U.S.S.R., Canada, U.S.A., S. Africa, S. America, Australia, China and Malaysia [5]. - ditto. Are there none present in Europe apart from Wales?

On hold

This is an interesting article but it appears not to have been edited to any extent before or since being put forward for GA review and I am putting it on hold for seven days. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:01, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, just so you know: the nominator was a student in this class, and has not edited on Wikipedia for over a month, since the class ended in December. The new semester started on January 14; a few students from the class have returned to their GANs, but several have not. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you BlueMoonset. During the ten days that this nomination has been on hold, no attempt has been made to improve it. So I am failing it on the basis of the comments I have made above. If the article is improved at a later date, it can be renominated. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2013 (UTC)